Jonathan Hayward
530 E Indiana, Wheaton, IL 60187, USA
[+1] (630) 690-5686
www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhayward jonathanhayward.com
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Languages:
●Ajax ●CSS ●HTML ●HTML5 (Boilerplate) (Mobile) ●JavaScript
●JSON ●Perl ●Python ●SQL ●XHTML ●XML
Skills:
●Accessibility ●Agile ●CMS ●e-Commerce ●End-to-End Development
●Front End ●IA ●Mobile ●OOP ●Patterns ●Security
●Themes ●UI ●Usability ●UX
Technologies:
●Apache ●CVS ●Cygwin ●Django ●GIMP ●Git
●jQuery ●LAMP ●Mac/OSX ●Mercurial ●MVC ●OSS
●Portals ●SVN ●Unix/Linux ●Windows
EXPERIENCE
Web Design and Web Developer Consultant
Kaplan Higher Education, 8/12-10/12
· Worked on “Ranger” project that used game design to try to help people connect people with jobs.
· Responsible for all aspects of front-end development.
· Effectively worked with and without using JavaScript libraries.
· As team expanded, worked with another front-end developer to use agile methodologies to build out project.
· Used CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Linux, OSX, Ubuntu, UI, Unix, Usability, VMware/Virtualization, and Windows 7.
Civic Consulting Alliance: McDonald’s Civic Fellow 6/12 – 8/12
· Worked on project aimed at significantly reducing violence.
· Used and developed data visualization techniques to help people glean insights from data.
· Served as one person team.
· Created geospatial mapping portal to program data.
· Used CSS, Geospatial, Google Maps API v3, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Portals, Python, Linux, OSX, Ubuntu, Unix, VMware/Virtualization, and Windows 7.
Bank of America, Chicago, IL, 3/12-5/12
· Developed in Python across areas of responsibility.
· Worked with functionally oriented Python having object-oriented database.
· Addressed relevant legal issues and worked to ensure Dodd-Frank regulatory compliance.
· Devised technique for user interface that would work with their system and remember user choices for next time.
· Worked, as far as possible, to further end-to-end software development including UI and usability.
Simply Classic Remodeling, Winfield, IL, 1/12-present
· Pro bono project in the service of a small family business.
· Responsible for all aspects of design, implementation, and creation excluding content, including but not limited to Accessibility, Agile, Apache, CSS, Design, GIMP, HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0, IA, JavaScript, jQuery, SEO, SHTML / SSI, UI, Usability, and UX.
The Russian Shop—Maison Russe, Lisle, IL, 4/11-7/11.
· Created page generation script to streamline process of adding new pages.
· Made Django "Proof of Concept".
· Introduced virtualization.
· Worked on web facet of ongoing "Empathy" project.
· Used Cygwin, Django, HTML, Python, and SunOS.
General Electric, Hoffman Estates, IL 3/11-6/11.
· Implemented changes to transform billing site to be more modern, friendly, and better serve business needs.
· Produced extremely rapid prototypes of Ajax functionality for user interface needs across system.
· Client-side liaison for implementing details in Skunkworks project.
· Created over half a dozen Python/Django microsites.
· Used Ajax, CSS, Cygwin, Django, HTML5, HTML5 Boilerplate, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, JSON, Linux, Python, RIA, UI, Usability, UX.
Navteq, Chicago, IL 12/10.
· Lightning contract creating CMS and microsite so team could more elegantly browse and explore information.
· Created powerful UI that simplified access to data and made finding desired information much easier.
· Produced results immediately, resulting in contract completion
· Completed contract faster than planned.
· Worked with Agile, CSS, Django, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, UI, Unix, Usability.
Packt Publications, Wheaton, IL 3/10-12/10
· Wrote pioneering treatment of Django jQuery Ajax and completed expanded first draft two months ahead of schedule.
· Walked the reader through the creation of a special-purpose tailored CMS.
· Created the world’s first open source employee intranet photo directory Also proposed Python and Usability title which was editorially accepted.
· Independently invented technique for Ajax without JavaScript or client-side scripting resulting in over two million hits and ongoing traffic
· Independently published domain-specific, specialized search engine and CMS with strong attention to UI and UX.
· Worked with Agile, Ajax, CGI, CMS, CSS, Django, GIMP, HTML, Intranet, jQuery, jQuery UI, JSON, Mercurial, MVC, Python, SQL, UI, Unix/Linux, Unobtrusive JavaScript, Usability, UX, Web Design, Web Development, XHTML, and XML.
Steep Rock, Chicago, IL 1/10-2/10
· Responsible for development and expansion of advanced pharmaceutical industry software identifying and managing key opinion leaders.
· Developed, maintained, and debugged multiple areas of complex system.
· Developed new password system, proposed and implemented several security enhancements, and significantly improved on prior system.
· Used Ajax, Apache, CGI, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, LAMP, MySQL, ORM, Python, SQL, SVN, UI, Unix/Linux, Usability, Web Design, Web Development, XHTML, and XML.
Kingsway Financial Services, Elk Grove Village, IL 9/07-3/08.
· Developed RIA intranet/extranet prototype.
· Documented and explained open source technologies and solutions.
· Worked with CMS, CSS, Cygwin, GIMP, HTML, RIA, Tomcat, Velocity, Web 2.0, and Windows XP.
Senior Web Developer
Optics Planet, Northbrook, IL, 8/10-1/12
· Senior back end web developer.
· Worked in team environment in group responsible for flagship web software project.
· Contributed popular internal-use tools.
· Worked on both front- and back-end.
· Used Agile, Back-End, Cygwin, Front-End, HTML, JavaScript, JIRA, Kamban, Linux, Mercurial, MVC, Object Oriented Design Patterns, Python, MySQL, SQL Server, Virtualization, Windows 7, and XML.
Senior Python / Web Developer, Call One, Chicago, IL 6/08-11/09
· Worked for revenue assurance auditor to create tool to help auditor sift through mounds of data to find when we were being given spurious charges.
· Cut auditor’s time allotment from working overtime to catch up, to only needing part-time work on that responsibility with freedom to take up other projects that were not otherwise in reach.
· Provided web solutions to telecom parent company and travel subsidiary, coming to know both industries.
· Developed UI to help relevant information “jump out” from mounds of data, which substantially decreased excess workload for the revenues assurance auditor while improving productivity.
· Created secure web server from scratch to handle online payments at well above industry standard security levels.
· Transformed look and feel of billing system and integrated e-commerce payment system.
· Responsible for communicating and handling technical negotiations with upstream provider which the company knew to be difficult to work with.
· Handled customer-facing communications for issues related to online billing
· Created mobile website intended to address urgent needs and provide quick contact information to resolve emergencies.
· Worked with Agile, Ajax, Alfresco, Apache, CherryPy, CGI, CSS, Customer Service, e-Commerce, Flex, GIMP, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, LAMP, Perl, PHP, Python, SOAP, SEO, SQL, UI, Unix/Linux, WDSL, Web Design, Web Development, XHTML, and XML.
Web Designer, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 8/05-5/07.
· Created, overhauled, expanded, organized, and maintained websites for multiple departments within university.
· Developed technical side of website including adapting work to function gracefully in the CMS.
· Worked on making a more user-friendly website through sensitivity to artistic concerns, graphic design, usability, and information architecture concerns..
· Represented university to both internal and external clients in person, over phone, and by e-mail.
· Used CMS, CSS, Customer Service, GIMP, and HTML.
Web Consultant, Systematic Political Science, Cosby, TN, 1/03—present.
· Responsible for all aspects of creating, updating, and maintaining website.
· Took information existing in Word documents and incorporated it into seamless website.
· Used Apache, CSS, GIMP, HTML, Linux, POSH.
INTERESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
· Published author in three languages, including online book on Perl and paper book on Django and JavaScript.
· Created “Mobile Web Proxy” that has won the Brothersoft “Editor’s Pick” award.
· Created “Ajax Without JavaScript” proof of concept that was given coverage on Slashdot.
EDUCATION
· M.S. in Applied Math, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. Computational Science and Engineering Option. GPA 3.5/4.0.
· B.S. in Math, Calvin College, 1996. GPA 3.3/4.0.
BRAINBENCH CERTIFICATIONS
Technical
· CGI Scripting (Master)
· Dynamic HTML
· HTML 4.0
· Internet Security
· Java 2
· JavaScript 1.5
· Linux Administration (General)
· Linux Programming (General)
· Network Security
· OO Concepts
· OO Design Patterns
· Perl
· Programming Concepts (Master)
· Python 1.5
· SQL (ANSI)
· Web Design for Accessibility
· Web Design Concepts
· Web Development Concepts
· Web Server Administration
· XHTML